Paulo Nutini new release pencil full of lead with Al Minns and Leon James dancing

Al Minns (1 January 1920 24 April 1985), was a prominent American Lindy Hop and jazz dancer. Most famous for his film and stage performances in the 1930s and 1940s with the Harlem-based Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, Minns worked throughout his life to promote the dances that he and his cohorts helped to pioneer at New York’s Savoy Ballroom. Minns also played a part in the revival of Lindy Hop in the 1980s, when he was invited to Stockholm in 1984 by the The Rhythm Hot Shots dance company to teach the dance the way he knew it. The group had until then mainly used old film clips as a source for their interpretation of Lindy Hop. In 1938, Al Minns and Sandra Gibson (see Mildred Pollard) won the Harvest Moon Ball. Leon James, one of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, had one of the greatest on-stage personalities in Lindy Hopping. With his constantly moving legs and hands and his flashing eyes, everyone would always notice him first. His styling was a favorite of the ladies at the Savoy, who stil